Toy wagon.



No. 65l,658.

(No Model.)

J. FLINDALL.

TOY WAGON.

(Application filed Oct. 2, 1899.)

Patented lune l2, I900.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN FLINDALL, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

TOY WAGON.

SPECIFICATION formin part of Letters Patent No. 651 ,658, dated June 12, 190i).

Application filed October 2, 1899.

T0 to whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, JOHN FLINDALL, of Ohicago, in the State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Wagons, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to miniature wagons designed to be operated by children at play; and one of the objects is to provide a wheeled vehicle and to adapt it to be propelled by manipulating flexible pull-straps in connection with a weight, pivoted lever, and crank, the propelling parts being so connected and arranged that a child seated on the vehicle can manipulate the pull-straps while guiding the vehicle in its course of travel with his feet.

A further object is to provide an attractive toy vehicle combining a wagon and hobbyhorse which can be operated by a child riding thereon.

I attain these objects in the toy wagon and hobby-horse constructed and arranged as illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation of a toy of the class referred to containing my invention, the figure in dotted lines representing the position of the rider thereon. Fig. 2 is a top or plan view.

In the drawings, A is the wagon bed or box, supported at the rear by springs a, resting on the axle B, which hold the box above the axle. The front of the bottom of the box is 0011- tracted in width and supported on the front axle B by an angle-plate I), having its rear part bolted to the under side of the bottom and pivotally connected at its front part with a plate I) of the front axle, constituting the fifth-wheel. The front wheels 0 are made to track inside the hind wheels and run under the forward or contracted part of the box when traversing a curve, and the connection of the bottom of the box with the axles, front and rear, is such that the box-bottom serves the purposes of a reach. The ends of the front axle are ext-ended through the hubs of the front wheels and turned up, so as to form Serial No. 732,303. (No model.)

a rock-shaft D insuitable bearings, the shaft having an arm D fixed thereto and projecting downward through a slot 01 in the bottom. On the upper side of the rock-shaft I mount a hobby-horse E, which is firmly fixed there to by its hind legs, so as to be supported in a rearing attitude, the weight of the body being borne by the pivotal connection with the bottom of the box and the body sustaining the relation of the long end of a lever to the arm D. The axle B is provided with ashort crank e, and this is connected with the arm D by means of a pittnan-rod F, so that vibratory movement of said arm will cause said axle to rotate, and the wheels G being fixed to the shaft will rotate therewith.

I-I designates pull-straps, which are made of leather 'or like flexible material. Theyare attached to the head or the upper part of the hobby, so that by pulling on the pull-straps the free or head part of the hobby will be turned upward toward the perpendicular, causing the rock-shaft to swing the arm D in the direction of the front wheels, while releas ing or slackening the pull-straps allows the body to fall or incline downward and swings the arm D in the opposite direction. The seat I is arranged behind the hobby, so that the rider in the seat can place his feet upon the rests c and take the pull-straps in his hands. The rider in the seat can put his foot upon theground in starting or moving the crank off its centers, and once in motion the motion can be kept up as long as desired by alternately pulling and relaxing the pullstraps.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The combination with a toy wagon having a seat for the rider, of the front axle provided withfoot-rests, a rock-shaft mounted on the box and provided with an arm depending below the box, a crank on the rear axle, a pitman-rod connecting the crank and arm, and a hobby-horse mounted with its hind legs on the rock-shaft in a roaring attitude and provided with flexible pull-straps in connection with the head as specified.

J OI-IN FLINDALL.

Witnesses:

ANNIE M. ADAMS, ROBERT VAN SANDS. 

